{"id":51442,"date":"2014-03-10T12:19:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T19:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=51442"},"modified":"2014-12-29T02:10:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T09:10:41","slug":"how-to-radically-reduce-your-lifespan-as-a-comboxer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2014\/03\/how-to-radically-reduce-your-lifespan-as-a-comboxer.html","title":{"rendered":"How To Radically Reduce Your Lifespan as a Comboxer"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Me: Let\u2019s talk about <em>Cosmos<\/em>\u2018 lousy history of the relationship of the Church and Science<\/p>\n<p>Jerk: SEX ABUSE SCANDAL!<\/p>\n<p>Me: Stick to the subject<\/p>\n<p>Jerk: I AM BEING SILENCED!<\/p>\n<p>Me: You\u2019re welcome to comment as long as you stick to the subject.<\/p>\n<p>Jerk: HELP!\u00a0 HELP!\u00a0 I\u2019M BEING REPRESSED!\u00a0 NOW WE SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE SYSTEM!<\/p>\n<p>Me: Bye!<\/p>\n<p>If you are a member of the Jerk-American community, get help immediately.\u00a0 It may be that your friends and loved ones are too repelled by you to want to bother approaching you about your problem.\u00a0 But blog managers and other members of the Normal American community will be happy to tell you: \u201cStop acting like a jerk.\u00a0 There is help and hope.\u00a0 Begin with with the First Affirmation: \u2018I am a jerk.\u00a0 Nobody is silencing me or covering anything up.\u00a0 They are trying to have an adult conversation and I suck all the oxygen out of the room with my psychodrama.\u00a0 Next time, I will try to demonstrate common courtesy.'\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can do it, Jerk Americans.\u00a0 You can join adult society!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me: Let\u2019s talk about Cosmos\u2018 lousy history of the relationship of the Church and Science Jerk: SEX ABUSE SCANDAL! 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